WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (AP): In a rare outreach to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, President Barack Obama has written a letter about the fight against Islamic State militants, a common enemy in Syria and Iraq, according to diplomatic sources....
BEIJING, Nov 7 (Reuters): China and Japan agreed on Friday to work on improving ties and signaled willingness to put a bitter row over disputed islands on the back burner, paving the way for their leaders to meet at an...
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (Reuters): The United States said it conducted air strikes against the so-called Khorasan group, an al Qaeda-linked militant faction based in Syria, and said the group was plotting to attack Europe or the United States. U.S. officials,...
NEW DELHI, Nov 7 (AP): First, the rumors start. May be a Muslim man threw garbage outside a temple, or a Hindu boy teased a Muslim girl. No one has any names or specifics, but that doesn't stop people from...
WASHINGTON, Nov 7 (AP): The retired Navy SEAL who says he shot al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in the forehead publicly identified himself Thursday amid a debate among special operations brethren about whether they should break silence about their secret...
Spanish court upholds charges of tax fraud against Princess Cristina SPAIN, Nov 7 : A Spanish High Court said on Friday it would uphold charges of tax fraud against Cristina de Borbon, sister of King Felipe VI, rejecting an appeal...
RAJSHAHI, Nov 7 (BSS): Prospects of agro-processing enterprises is bright in the Rajshahi region as it produces surplus crops especially food-grains, fruits and vegetables, business leaders, bankers, agronomists and researchers here said. They expressed the view that the region has...
SINGAPORE, Nov 7 (AFP/BSS): Oil prices fell in Asia Friday after the OPEC oil cartel slashed its longer-term global demand outlook, while a stronger dollar also weighed, analysts said. The benchmark US futures contract, West Texas Intermediate for December delivery,...
LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters): Aluminium dipped on Friday as producers and trade houses sold while the wider base metals complex was mixed ahead of key U.S. jobs data that could move the dollar. Three-month aluminium on the London Metal Exchange...
LONDON, Nov 7 (Reuters):- Gold prices edged higher on Friday, recovering from a sudden early slide to 4-1/2 year lows, as traders took to the sidelines ahead of U.S. non-farm payrolls data later. Gold is set to fall for a...
Kamrun Nahar | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
The state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has initiated a move to make it operationally sound and financially viable through curbing corruption and enhancing efficiency of its management, officials said. The main objectives of the move are to check misappropriation...
Shah Alam Nur | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Profits of listed pharmaceutical companies showed robust growth in the past three quarters of this year, driven by growing demand, industry-insiders said. To keep pace with demands, the entrepreneurs diversified products and expanded marketing, helping the life saving sector to...
FE Report | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Prices of most vegetables declined significantly on Friday, thanks to the increased arrival of winter crops in the market, traders said. Imported Indian variety of onion increased while most of other commodity prices showed static trend on the day, traders...
RANGPUR, Nov 7: Adoption and popularisation of the climate resilient cropping patterns with latest technologies can further increase crop production at reduced costs to attain sustainable food security despite adverse impacts of climate change. Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA)-based technologies...
GENEVA, Nov 07 (AFP): Unemployment and rising income inequality will top concerns for global leaders in 2015, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Friday. The organisation, which each year gathers the global elite in the plush Swiss ski resort...
BRUSSELS, Nov 07 (AFP): EU finance ministers meet in Brussels Friday, with revelations about Luxembourg's tax breaks for big firms putting pressure on former premier Jean-Claude Juncker, the new European Commission president. The finance ministers will also hope to end...
SEOUL, Nov 7 (Reuters): South Korean authorities won't sit on their hands while a tumbling yen undercuts the country's export competitiveness, the central bank chief said on Friday, but policymakers could be reluctant to reduce interest rates, and currency intervention...
A global trade deal between India, the United States and the European Union is close to being signed, with India agreeing to sign the stalled international treaty on easier customs rules, the Times of India reported, reports Reuters. India will...
BEIJING, Nov 7 (Reuters): China said on Friday it hoped US-led Asia-Pacific free-trade talks would be transparent and China would be open to joining them, playing down controversy over competing US and Chinese visions for regional trade. Ministers from 12...
Rahman Jahangir | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
'Malaysian paratha' is now at the door-step of people in urban areas of Bangladesh. So are Thai noodles. Thanks to open market in this time of globalisation, farm products from one end of the globe travel without any restrictions to...
B K Mukhopadhyay from Kolkata | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Can the current situation be termed satisfactory? Around 1.3 billion without access to clean water; about half of humanity lacking access to adequate sanitation and living on less than two dollars a day; approximately two billion without access to electricity....
The alarm bell has been ringing for far too long. It has gone unheeded, it should not go so any longer. In question is the country's quality of education. The results of the recent admission tests in the University of...
Wasi Ahmed | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
The findings of the inspection of garment factories by the two European and US retailer groups have finally come out. And yes, much to the shock of concerned quarters that things have turned from bad to worse. Worse, because earlier...
Mohammad Iftekhar Hossain | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Bangladesh was once known as a land of rivers. It is the network of innumerable rivers and rivulets that earned for the country the axiom of a well-watered and well-fruited land inhabited by well-natured peace-loving people. Rivers have not dried...
Patenga beach is fast becoming strange to the older residents of Chittagong. Where have those good old days gone when, we, as teenage boys and youths, used to pass the afternoons on the quiet beach. As the evening fell, we...
Nowadays we see many young people ride bicycles but their number is few. Bicycle can save a lot of time if we adopt it in our daily life. It is environment-friendly, cost and time saving. Due to our hectic urban...
It is good to know that the Army welfare trust has started bus service in the name of "trust transport services" and initially five buses have been started plying on Dhaka city route and I am sure more buses will...
Muhammed Ali in the first of a two-part article | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Modernisation is evolutionary and inevitable. It got further momentum with the advent of fast-track technology developments around the world. We now live in a digital age. This has led to dramatic changes in the global economy, especially in financial innovations...
Saleh Akram | 2014-11-08 00:00:00
Our experience of denationalisation (privatisation) of state-owned industrial and commercial enterprises is far from pleasant. There are reports of flagrant violations of the terms of transfer by the transferee on the one hand, and failure to restart the units on...
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